Do we not have enough real problems without conjuring up fictitious ones to muddy the waters of international understanding?

Even mandatory contact tracing is elusive, since an infected person can refuse to divulge names or give fictitious ones.

Here real places become the starting point for constructed, fictitious ones.

These two groups are populated with authentic Mesopotamian gods and monsters as well as fictitious ones.

But he surrounded these characters with legitimately fictitious ones.

However, the site and names were changed to fictitious ones for the movie, as was the name of the hurricane.

In late years the Vatican has been re-examining the credentials of its saints and has dropped a lot of them, especially the fictitious ones.

Let us take the matter of name spellings first, whether personal names or place names, real names or fictitious ones.

In order to impress this court, such a warrant might well bear the names of actual former emperors, rather than of fictitious ones.

Attempts have been made, especially in older scholarly works, to assign the names of some of the real Serapion Brethren to the fictitious ones.